From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 4 8:10: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from icebox.venux.net (icebox.venux.net [216.120.166.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F048137BD2C for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 08:10:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mitch@venux.net) Received: from servbox.venux.net (matrix.venux.net [216.120.166.5]) by icebox.venux.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C726026209; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 11:13:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: from doot (doot.venux.net [10.0.0.65]) by servbox.venux.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 27DBE2BD82; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 11:10:08 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <014301bf9e48$4363a160$4100000a@venux.net> From: "Mitch Vincent" To: "John Goodleaf" , References: Subject: Re: Off Topic-Programming questions Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 11:12:59 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I've been told that, to some extent, being a good procedural lang > programmer (C) tends to make you a bad OOProgrammer, or at least one with > a steep unlearning curve in front of him. Foo. It's just a different way of programming.. As long as you realize that and don't try to do C programming in Java, you'll be fine! I've jumped around from language to language, some OO languages, some not -- it's not that hard as long as you know what you're getting into. > Do you think that's true? I'm thinking of making a jump over to Java from > C. Since I'm not an especially good or advanced C programmer, I figure it > might work out, assuming the above is true. > > That said, can anyone recommend a good Java programming book--something on > the low end for starters would be nice. Of course, any recommendations are > welcome and appreciated. Anything by ORA! :-) -Mitch To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message